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I usually practice "CPR" Catch, Photo. Release. I do keep fish to eat on occasion but not that day. Thanks for watching and commenting!

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Wow! That's a huge Channel Catfish. Here in Virginia, 12lbs is a citation for a Channel. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@@justrelaxandfish The Angler Award in KS is 33" for Channel and the State record is 38" at 36.5 lbs. He caught the Channel in OK who's state record is 35 lbs 15 oz. I can't find their Reg on Angler Award. A 33" er weights about 15 lbs so it may have been in an award class.

@@eldandonsmith5372 Virginia regs for a trophy Channel Cat is 30" or 12lbs.

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Good question! I only found 1 hook. Thanks for commenting!

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Now that would have been something! Thanks for watching!😁

Yeah, some bass are all attitude! Thanks for watching and commenting!

When I saw the big splash I knew that this was not your average fish. Thanks for watching and commenting!

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I certainly contributed but, I did only have one end of the line.

@@justrelaxandfish indeed, you had one end of the line. but you also had a lot of line before that end would eventually have been reached...

@@janvanruth3485 You may not be aware that I was fishing in the branches of a sunken tree. I was thumbing the reel to keep the fish from getting wrapped around more than one limb. I really wasn't expecting a striper to eat my crappie minnow. If I let the fish strip drag and get wrapped up in a bunch of limbs I would lose it anyway. If you watched the whole video you saw that I switched to a rod more suited to land a large fish in heavy cover. Thanks for your comments!

Definately spooked the crappie! Luckily I was able to land the striper without it getting into my other line or wrapping around one of the limbs of the brushpile I was fishing. Thanks for commenting!

Stripers can be found shallow at times depending on several factors such as water temperature, oxygen content of the water, time of day, and an available food source. I was fishing in 17 feet of water at the time and there were shad in the area as well as crappie and bluegill. You can always get surprised by the occasional striper even if you think there are none closeby. Thanks for the comment!

Thanks for watching and thanks for the nice comment!

You must not have been very hungry.

@@ronaldking2435 I'll keep a couple of crappie or maybe one striper on occasion. This trip was just for fun. When I do keep fish to eat it is a special day because I haven't had a fish dinner in awhile. I don't freeze fish for future meals. I fish quite often and always have the option to keep a couple if I'm fortunate enough to actually catch a fish.😁

Walter?

@@justrelaxandfish Guess you’re younger than I am. Grumpy Old Men movie. Two men trying to catch the same huge fish.

@@jwhite9825 Maybe not younger, maybe poor memory!😁

@@justrelaxandfish lol

This is Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. I am counting the days until Labor Day. The kids are back in school and the summertime boaters head back to wherever they came from. Better days coming! Thanks for watching and commenting!

@@justrelaxandfish We rented a house on Smith Mountain when my youngest son was graduating from Liberty University in Lynchburg back in 2017. It looked like a nice lake, but we were not there for that. Thanks for the info!

Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. I like a pontoon for a number of reasons. No stepping up and down on a casting deck is one of them. I'm not runnin' and gunnin' looking for fish so I don't need the speed of a bass boat. I don't fish tournaments anymore and my only competitor is the fish. Thanks for the comment!

I think you may be confusing my video with one where forward facing sonar is being used to catch fish. Sorry, I don't have one.

I'm all for that!

@@justrelaxandfish i hear ya

Do they get much bigger in that spot? We get monsters here at Lake Mead; but they have all room in the world.

@@bobsmith6544 The record Striped Bass caught at Smith Mountain Lake so far is 49.4 lbs. The current state record for the fish is 53 lbs. 7 oz. caught in 2000 from below the SML dam in Leesville Lake.

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You just never know what you'll catch on Smith Mountain Lake. There's a huge muskie in the area too. Maybe I'll get him to bite sometime!

@justrelaxandfish lived in the Midwest and musky and walleye are what I was raised on. Never had musky on or follow there but I know they're around. I hope you get him.

@@jrz7325 If I do it'll be luck since I don't fish for muskie. Thanks for the comments!

Did you watch the whole video?

​@@justrelaxandfish That crappie went home and shot up some roids and came back PO'd

Yes, I agree! Thanks for the comment!